Frankenstein’s Westmonster
All political parties are a mess: coalitions of people with different beliefs, stitched together — like Frankenstein’s monster — into…
Remind you of anyone? How Theresa May is morphing into Gordon Brown
Standing outside No. 10, our newly chosen — though not elected — Prime Minister decided to address the country directly.…
Remind you of anyone? How Theresa May is morphing into Gordon Brown
Standing outside No. 10, our newly chosen — though not elected — Prime Minister decided to address the country directly.…
May’s man of influence
Civil servants in the Home Office, even the senior ones, always felt a little nervous when walking towards Theresa May’s…
Will Labour never learn?
By now, Labour should be rather good at post-defeat inquests. Plenty have been conducted over the years and the drill…
Will Labour never learn?
By now, Labour should be rather good at post-defeat inquests. Plenty have been conducted over the years and the drill…
Do the Tories want to lose London?
The Labour plotters who dream of ousting Jeremy Corbyn had high hopes for the local elections on 5 May. They…
Do the Tories want to lose London?
The Labour plotters who dream of ousting Jeremy Corbyn had high hopes for the local elections on 5 May. They…
What Muslims think
Polls suggesting that they sympathise with terrorists are misleading
Labour’s lost thinker
Jon Cruddas is still looking for ways to renew his party.They’re unlikely to please his new leader
Adoption begins at home
Pity the refugees, but think of our own abandoned children
Labour’s iron lady?
An interview with Yvette Cooper
Cameron’s new army of Tory loyalists
Time was when the Conservatives believed that a small majority — which puts a government at the mercy of backbench…
Cameron’s new army of Tory loyalists
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thereturnofassisteddying/media.mp3 Time was when the Conservatives believed that a small majority — which puts a government at the mercy…
Labour MPs’ next choice: which leadership coup to back
Jeremy Corbyn’s close friend Tony Benn had five questions he always asked of those in power: ‘What power have you…
Labour MPs’ next choice: which leadership coup to back
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thecleaneatingcult/media.mp3 Jeremy Corbyn’s close friend Tony Benn had five questions he always asked of those in power: ‘What power…
Time is running out for Labour
The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated between petty…
Time is running out for Labour
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/chinasdownturn-labourslostvotersandthesweetestvictoryagainstaustralia/media.mp3 The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated…
The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers
The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an uneasy truce…
The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/theosbornesupremacy/media.mp3 The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an…
Blue is the collar
Stephen Crabb, the working-class Welsh Secretary with a fondness for Margaret Thatcher
Healthy ambition
Andy Burnham on the NHS, ‘mainstream Labour’ and his party’s leadership
Flowering obsession
The roots of snowdrop fever
The big loud voice
Archbishop John Sentamu is not scared to tell off politicians, across the spectrum
The Tories are preparing for civil war in the unlikely event of victory
It is quite normal in British politics for a political party to turn on itself after an election defeat —…
